On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 04:04:58 GMT, Julian Waters <jwat...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> We should set the -permissive- flag for the Microsoft Visual C compiler, as >> was requested by the now backed out >> [JDK-8241499](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8241499). Doing so makes >> the Visual C compiler much less accepting of ill formed code, which will >> improve code quality on Windows in the future. It can be done with some >> effort, given that the significantly stricter gcc can now compile an >> experimental Windows JDK as of 2023, and will serve to significantly cut >> down on monstrosities in ancient Windows code > > Julian Waters has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional > commit since the last revision: > > Remove negation in os_windows.cpp Why initial patch was reverter using this comment: "unfortunately, did not prove to be as useful as expected"? What was the problem? What about the "pedantic" option which was added last time? ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15096#issuecomment-1681152431
